NZ AIMS Tournament - Tauranga Week 8

Yippee! Our Y8 Girls Basketball team came 2nd overall - The best finish we have had in all the years we have been competing. Our boys Basketball team also did extremely well with a top 6 finish. Camden Te Kani-McQueen placed 2nd in New Zealand and Joshua placed 3rd overall in the Gym Sports. Our Netball team placed 18th overall and we are yet to find out how our other athletes faired. Congratulations to all of our competitors and a huge thank you to our coaches and managers of each of these teams and individuals.

Year 6 Orientations - Week 8

This week we saw students from Westbrook, Otonga, Sunset, Lynmore, Glenholme, Malfroy, Kawaha Point, Ngongotaha, Western Heights, Rotorua Primary, Galatea, St Michaels and St Mary's Primary School's. We had over 350 visitors come to check out our school and during this time we had the most awesome students support our visitors. A big thank you to our Year 7 councillors, our prefect helpers, Ethan, Lucy, Rachel and Ashleigh. Also to the students that supported in each of the specialist technology areas. Our Specialist teachers put on a fantastic programme to showcase some of the learning our students experience at RIS. A fabulous week had by all.

Week 7 RIS Production BATS

I must get some photos posted of this production on my blog. A huge congratulations to the cast of 70 odd students and Alisdair Hay and Mrs Dingwal. This cast did two matinees and 3 night shows in four days. They were awesome right through to the end. Hopefully we will get a dvd from Graham Jones real soon.

Mathletics - RIS Week 6

Well, school certainly did look a little different this week. We had a sleepover on Monday night which started with 83 students in for the first 2hrs and then 65 in for a dinner of fish n chips pre packed by Oppies Fish n Chips. Really delicious and a good choice for the first night.From 8pm we had 70 sleep over and to be honest we did get around 8 hours sleep. We decided to shut down the computers at around 10pm and it only took about half an hour for the students to settle down and snooze. The first lot of stirring was at 6.30am and a breakfast of cereal, toast, milo or cordial was served at about 7am. School as usual for all our hearty mathematicians for Tuesday. Thank you to Matua Mark, Mrs Hamblyn who slept over with us to ensure all of our munchkins were safe.

Tuesday afternoon saw us with about 70 in the first session and 30 in the second session, then it was time for all of us to go home at 8pm. Yipee - A night in my own bed.

Wednesday was a bigger night than Monday with about 80 sleeping over. We had sweet n sour pork for dinner, once again from Oppies - which was lovely. By this time we all knew we had to work on Curriculum Math to earn maximum points, and boy were those questions hard. Improper fractions, converting percentages, fractions and decimal numbers really got the grey matter moving. Sleep again at around 10.30pm and it was only about 5 mins before we heard the first murmurs of snoring (enjoyable sleep). I was jealous. Breakfast again at 7am and off to another jam packed day.

Thursday saw us open until 8pm and then another well earned night in our own homes.

Matua Mark and Whaea Jodi had their rooms open on Sunday for the last efforts to help us out with the schoolwide totals.

All in all, we had a fantastic time and did a lot of math consolidation during that time. Our overall results was 3rd in New Zealand, Mrs Chand's class came 1st in NZ, Matua Mark came 2nd. 15 of our 24 classes featured in the top 50 classes in New Zealand. Fantastic RIS - yet another proud moment.

Dinner by an open fire

A fabulous dinner by an open fire is the best way to soothe aching bones from a day on the snow. Happy Valley was warm and sunny, but when I got the chance I took the Centennial and the Waterfall Express chairlift to the upper mountain. Boy it was freezing - thought my face was going to blow off!

Yipee the Mountain is open

We were so excited we forgot to take pictures

Term 2 Holidays